Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Bandaikan in Ichinohe, Iwate, a timber cinema of 1956 on a business founded in 1909, is a fine example of the picture houses built before rapid growth.

The Yokoya Sake Brewery Rice-Steaming House in Senmaya, Iwate, is a late Meiji timber workshop for steaming sake rice, with a big ridge vent and an 11-metre span.

The Yokoya Sake Brewery Drying Shed in Senmaya, Iwate, is an open-sided late Taisho timber shed, 22 metres long, built to dry lignite fuel by the East Storehouse.

The Yokoya Sake Brewery Brewers' Kitchen in Senmaya, Iwate, is a small late Taisho timber kitchen where the crew cooked and rested during the winter brewing season.

The Yokoya Sake Brewery Koji Room in Senmaya, Iwate, is a stone koji house of about 1902, with a rock-faced granite base, Shiogama tuff above and a cornice.

The Yokoya Sake Brewery Front Storehouse in Senmaya, Iwate, is a 1902 earthen-walled storage kura, 41 metres long, at the centre of a U-shaped brewery plan.

The Yokoya Sake Brewery Tank Shed in Senmaya, Iwate, built in 1899, is the oldest building on the site built for brewing: a tall clapboard shed on a stone base.

The Yokoya Sake Brewery Brewing Storehouse in Senmaya, Iwate, is a 1902 earthen-walled brewing hall, 44 metres long, with a yeast-starter room and brewing floor.

The Yokoya Sake Brewery East Storehouse in Senmaya, Iwate, is a 1902 single-storey kura, 44 metres long, once used to store and filter sake and now hosting concerts.

The Yokoya Sake Brewery Bottling Factory in Senmaya, Iwate, began in 1881 as the village office and was later moved and reused as the plant for bottling sake.

A 10-square-meter 1934 valve house at Morioka's Yonai plant, trimmed in Oya stone at its base, corners, openings and eaves. Registered 1999; seen in cherry season.

A three-chamber concrete basin of 1934 where Yonai River water first entered Morioka's waterworks to be metered. Registered in 1999; grounds open in cherry season.

Twin square settling pools of 1934, 54 by 27 meters, with brick-lined walls and stone coping at Morioka's first waterworks. Registered 1999; open in cherry season.

A 90-by-37-meter slow sand filter of 1934 in Morioka, split into three beds with a small stone-trimmed valve house on each. Still in use; open in the cherry season.

The westernmost valve house of 1934 at Morioka's Yonai plant, the first building seen on the right inside the gate opposite Kami-Yonai Station. Registered in 1999.

An octagonal 1934 well house by the gate of Morioka's Yonai plant, one storey made to look like two, with Oya stone buttresses, band courses and round upper windows.

Built in 1934 as the office of Morioka's first water plant, this timber hall with a dormer roof has shown waterworks history since 1984. Free, weekdays, by booking.

The central valve house of 1934 at Morioka's Yonai plant, whose round window, round vents and half-round vault face the filter bed like a little palace by the water.

An early Showa storehouse in Kamioka, Hida, Gifu, registered in 2014. It has two storeys and a basement, and a lean-to from the main house roofs the floor around it.

An early Showa board fence in Kamioka, Hida, Gifu, registered in 2014. Its 18 meters of yamato-bari boards and lattice windows turn a corner around a front garden.

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